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[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin v0.1.3

It looks like we're through with the worst of the Internetconnection issues. 0.1.3 fixed a problem where your node'scommunications could go dead after a while. The network isrunning much more smoothly now with this version.

If you've successfully generated a block, you've seen it has amaturation countdown before you can spend it. Once it matures,the Credit column will change from 0.00 to 50.00. For a block tobe valid, it has to be broadcasted to the network and get into theblock chain, which is why Generate does not run if you're notconnected. If you generated a block without being connected, thenetwork wouldn't know about it and would continue building thechain without it, leaving it behind, and the maturation countdownwould change to "(not accepted)" when your node sees that itwasn't used. If you subtract 1 from the status column, that's howmany blocks have been chained after yours.